Show Your Art at SubRosa!

Do you have art that you would like to show out in the world?  How about at a space where a lot of people are living life, where your art would be a part of the fabric of a vibrant social space.

We at SubRosa are looking for folks that would like to show their art at our  community space. 
  
Also, the first Friday of the month we host an art opening with snacks and sometimes music to showcase the month's new art show.  And for a month your art will be a part of the space as people come through SubRosa during our open hours and the many events that we have during the month.

So, if this interests you, email us at subrosa-events@riseup.net. 

March 2012: "Lore-Tilling" by Ramille Baguio.

"Lore-Tilling" by Ramille Baguio

March artist-of-the-month

"I have always felt communicating with others through a compelling visual means has always been more natural and genuine. This is not to say that I am incapable at other forms of expression, I just find that the most engaging way of interacting with the world around me is through the images I create. With my work, I convey my interests, anxieties, and opinions without fear of embarrassment or miscommunication.

Ideas and emotions are represented within my images in allegory, each riddled with hints of morals, hubris, and folly in narrative form. These images act as storytelling with the subject matter for each being pulled from various legends, lore, myths, and tales around the world. Here, I attempt to reignite stories and characters that have withstood time yet recently seem to have become enervated, and re-signify their meanings within the contemporary space that we preside."

"Lore-Tilling" by Ramille Baguio

March 2012

Artist's reception Friday March 2, 2012 7:30-9PM

SubRosa, 703 Pacific at Spruce St

First Friday Artist: Danielle O'Malley

February 2011
Selected Works by Danielle O'Malley
February 4th-28th
Artists Reception Friday, February 4th 6-8pm
SubRosa, 703 Pacific at Spruce St

 

Danielle O’Malley utilizes printmaking, sculpture, narrative and installation to bring her audience into her own underground society. She regurgitates miscellaneous childhood memories to create and describe a society of fictional creatures, their morals, and their relationships to themselves and their world. Homeless houses roam wild and lost, female witches sacrifice pop culture, and her creatures sustain themselves through grotesque black magic, and black markets. This society explores ideas of utopias, dystopias, and the fine line between the two. These mutants attempt to find paradise between the cracks of their nightmarish realities, and vice versa. Themes of innocence and childhood attempt to sugarcoat their misery, while at the same time, emphasizing the terrors of their world. This imaginary world ultimately describes her internal and external conflicts, and her reflection on our generation and our environment.

Upcoming Artists

January 2011: Adaptations of Affection
Selected Works by Hannah Matzner

Miss Matzner's collection is an exploration of the things we put ourselves through for the people we love. It is a visual and lyrical manifestation of the insanity brought about by desire. It attempts to express all phases of a relationship, from that intoxicating honeymoon to the eventual downfall, all the while maintaining a sense of beauty and appreciation for the experiences had. In other words, this show is the capturing of one artist’s joy and sorrow, all expressed with a tinge of nostalgia.

January 2011: Adaptations of Affection
Selected Works by Hannah Matzner
January 1st-31st
Artists Reception Friday, January 7 6-8pm
SubRosa, 703 Pacific at Spruce St

Hannah Matzner was born on April 8, 1989 in a town occupied more by cows than by people.

Open Mic Every Thursday

One of the last remaining Open Mics in this allegedly pro-art town, the SubRosa Open Mic is often standing room only.  A weekly open mic at Santa Cruz newest community space and anarchist infoshop. An opportunity to connect with friends and showcase the incredible creative talent in our community. Music, poetry, and performance. From the mundane to the jaw-droppingly inspirational.

Donations directly benefit this community-supported space.  Signups for performance at 7:30 fill up quickly. Bring your creativity and artistic genius.

Art Opening: The Dark Night of DIY Ragdolls and Monsters

October 2009:  The Santa Cruz Anarchist Doll-Making Collective
The Dark Night of DIY Ragdolls and Monsters

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On Friday, October 2nd, at 5pm, SubRosa is excited to introduce the recent work of the Santa Cruz Anarchist Doll-Making Collective.  The show entitled The Dark Night of DIY Ragdolls and Monsters features the work of a dozen artists working individually and collaboratively to create homemade and recombined dolls and monsters.

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The original Dark Night arose out of a series of Free Skool Santa Cruz workshops on doll- and monster-making. Artists built dolls and monsters by hand out of scraps from their workshops, items gathered at the city dump, and materials scavenged from Bargain Barn.  During a series of Dark Nights, artists drank tea, made dolls, and stayed up all night sewing and watching dark doll movies from filmmakers the Brothers Quay, Jan Svankmajer,and Henry Selick.

Peering into the mad workshop of mad doll creators I saw feverish hands working away, some delightfully creepy movie playing on an old tv set, doll parts and needles strewn about the cutting floor, Frankenstein doll creations coming alive!

Historically, dolls are some of the oldest discovered toys, the earliest found in Egyptian tombs dating back to 3000 B.C.E.  Dolls depicted humans, animals, and imaginary creatures and have been made of every conceivable material: bisque, celluloid, china, clay, cloth, corn husks, paper, plastic, polymer clay, porcelain, resin, rubber, vinyl, wax, wood, bone, ivory, papier-mâché, and leather.

Join us for an opening show and reception on this Dark Night.

Art Opening: The Dark Night of DIY Ragdolls and Monsters
Friday, October 2nd, at 5pm
SubRosa, 703 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

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First Friday Art Opening: Michael Orick and Tom Calderone

Septemeber 2009:  Michael Orick and Tom Calderone
Recent Collages

On Friday, September 4th, at 5pm, SubRosa is excited to welcome collage artists Michael Orick and Tom Calderon.  Calderon and Orick have been hosting a weekly gathering of artists for more than three years, creating a wide variety of collage art.  Each, in distinct stylistic approaches to life and art, will be presenting pieces created at Collage Night,  and viewable on the walls of SubRosa and at CollageNight.com.

Orick applies values and guides meanderings with his jaunty approach to dismantling social interaction.  His claims of art for art's sake, is couched in a literary tradition of blanched intellectualism mixed with pale understandings of things: things such as color and time, silly similies and woman's underwear.  His past is yesterday's now.  Orick is gliding gracefully, with limbs akimbo.

Calderon, with his understanding of politics and religion, attempts to create visions of the reality behind the accepted spectacle.  His imagery is savage and calm, shockingly beautiful and sadly real, steeped in water like a fine tea, flavored something excellent.

Collage, considered by some the premier postmodern art form, has remained as fresh as local produce, and a clear link to the time before Nike and Coca-Cola.  Weilding their exacto-knives and glue sticks, collagenight provacateurs Calderon and Orick, hope to push the agenda of dreamers everywhere.

Art Opening: Michael Orick and Tom Calderone
Friday, September 4th, at 5pm
SubRosa, 703 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

Orick applies values and guides meanderings with his jaunty approach to dismantling social interaction.  His claims of art for art's sake, is couched in a literary tradition of blanched intellectualism mixed with pale understandings of things: things such as color and time, silly similies and woman's underwear.  His past is yesterday's now.  Orick is gliding gracefully, with limbs akimbo. Calderon, with his understanding of politics and religion, attempts to create visions of the reality behind the accepted spectacle.  His imagery is savage and calm, shockingly beautiful and sadly real, steeped in water like a fine tea, flavored something excellent.

Weekly Open Mic Thursday

SubRosa Weekly Open Mic
Thursday 8-10pm
(sign ups at 7:30)

$3-7 donation at the door suggested
no one turned away for lack of funds.

One of the last remaining Open Mics in this allegedly pro-art town, the SubRosa Open Mic is often standing room only. A weekly open mic at Santa Cruz newest community space and anarchist infoshop. An opportunity to connect with friends and showcase the incredible creative talent in our community. Music, poetry, and performance. From the mundane to the jaw-droppingly inspirational.

Donations directly benefit this community-supported space. Signups for performance at 7:30 fill up quickly. Bring your creativity and artistic genius.

First Friday Opening: Adriane White

The Art of Adriane White:
Getaway Sticks and Spaghetti Landscapes

On Friday, August 7th, at 5pm, SubRosa is excited to welcome the art of Adriane White to our walls.  These paintings portray her myriad feelings on performance art from weekly performances to burlesque to turn of the century stage set design.

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The dozen canvases in this show represent two whimsical series combined.  One is of part animals, part humans, who’ve been forced into the show business against their will.  The other is of a spaghetti landscape fantasy where meatballs are moons and a lone dancing foot is the star attraction.

Ms. White says, "I have been in the performance arena for a long time whether it be working at a Caberet restaurant, singing in a karaoke competition or performing my own act in a burlesque show. I can't seem to shake it, I suppose, cause here it is haunting me in paint form. Maybe I just need to get it out of my system."

Adriane White is a long time lover of the arts and has dabbled in its many avenues.  She’s studied dance and music most of her life and has appeared in over twenty theatrical plays and musicals.  After receiving her B.A. in studio art, with an emphasis on photography she undertook some commercial work.  Following a freak bike accident which left her injured, she turned to painting to occupy her creative energy.

Art Opening: Adriane White
Friday, August 7th, at 5pm
SubRosa, 703 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz

For prints on canvas of these paintings, contact her at HotWaterArt@gmail.com or HotWaterArt.etsy.com.

SubRosa Needs Yer Art

Hey All,

SubRosa is looking for artists to display their art on our walls. We have an art show the first Friday of every month with a new artist each month. Typically SubRosa shows emerging artists that have less access to public forums who create innovative,thought provoking art and/or art with an anarchist/radical bent that will fit in our cozy space.

See the artists page on the website,
http://subrosaproject.org/p/art.html

cheers,
og jen

June's Featured Artist: Deena Brabant

On Friday, June 5, at 5pm, SubRosa will proudly welcome the art of Deena Brabant to our walls. Deena’s paintings capture subtle moments in time, bringing attention to the challenges of existence in a world of constantly shifting terrain. According to Deena, her portraits “are orientation markers, a way of capturing a moment between where one has been and where one is going.”

Deena describes herself as “fixated on the human form and face, in life and in art: its structure, psyche and hidden secrets. All of this I envision devoid of environment, as if all my subjects could exist in any given space and time. In a material world, I find that what I cling to most when in search of sincerity are the fleeting emotions of myself and others. My figures are snapshots of these transient emotions, a look to remember when the feeling is gone.” Deena’s art will be on display at SubRosa for the month of June. The Artist’s Reception will start at 5pm on Friday, June 5.

Artist's Reception with Deena Brabant

5pm, Friday, June 5

SubRosa: A Community Space

703 North Pacific Ave. Santa Cruz, CA 95060